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Aaron

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50% complete! Aaron has read 7 of 14 books.

Cory Doctorow: The Internet Con (Hardcover, 2023, Verso) 3 stars

When the tech platforms promised a future of "connection," they were lying. They said their …

Doctorow doesn't seem to be able to decide if governments are going to save us or not?

He seems painfully aware of the fact that the companies we need to corral have captured the institutions we could use to control them, but seems to think they will somehow get the balls to take them down anyway?

David Graeber: Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia (2023, Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 3 stars

Pirates have long lived in the realm of romance and fantasy, symbolizing risk, lawlessness, and …

Quick Overview of a Very specific group

3 stars

An overview of a very specific group that were influenced by pirate immigrants. It's... fine. Cool from a historical point of view, but the argument that they influenced the Enlightenment is based purely on the fact that “pirates were cool.”